Judaism teaches that GOD hears every prayer, paying special attention to those for someone else's welfare. Do what you can to ease the heartache of this child and her parents.

A medical crisis - you'd cry too, if it happened to you. Use your tissues and handkerchiefs with my blessings borne of experience. GOD gives you Permission to Weep. And you can say that to any critics after explaining that "It's a Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To." Read all about that on page 5 of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

The past week held Yom HaZikaron, Israel's national day of mourning for its soldiers and defenseless innocents murdered by terrorists, followed by theYom Ha'Atzmaut day of joyous celebration for Israel's national independence. Israel is a home for Jews to cherish. I was so caught up in things that I did not blog much.

Passover/Pesakh had already been an emotional experience that remains with me until today. During the times when we focus on personal thoughts at the seder, I kept thinking "This an apropos time for Israelis to dismiss the appeasement fantasies of the kneset, the UN's opinion on anything (care to repair life in the Sudan or UAE, hmmm?), and the USA's messed-up take on Middle East life - let alone MSM's."

We'd spent the seder night recalling how only HaShem (GOD for non-Hebrew speakers) saves us time and again, and that politicians plus other meddlers are part of our problems. I'd like every Israeli to end their subscriptions to depressing, con job newspapers, pray harder, do more mitzvot, convince chutznikim to makealiya already (empty promises belie inactions) and to watch H's promises come true (Mashiakh must arrive on the scene when all the world's Jews are in Israel as Commanded).

Thursday, April 26, 2012

In the past 48 hours I've been caught up in Israel's national Day of Mourning/Yom Zikaron for the over 22,000 soldiers and defenseless innocents murdered by terrorists since the late 1800s this week.

Today we celebrate the declaration of

Israel's Independence.

I traveled early this morning to join Israel Defense Forces soldiers at at army base, with other civilians. We prepared a barbecue. We shared memories, salutes, deep thoughts, jokes, emotional healing and more. Fathers in uniform held their babies, children played soccer, frisbee, and other games.

It's been an emotional week, with much personal and national reflection.

Here I am (in the pink top) with my picnic plate, looking out at my miraculous country and people. I hope to post other photos of me on the scene after I upload them from various cameras. Meanwhile, here's a video describing the miracles of the Jewish people and our homeland to enjoy:

A medical crisis - you'd cry too, if it happened to you. Use your tissues and handkerchiefs with my blessings borne of experience. GOD gives you Permission to Weep. And you can say that to any critics after explaining that "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To." See the heavenly license to cry, and to cope with illness, disability and sadness, on page 5 of

Monday, April 23, 2012

Readers, I have a dynamic E-mail correspondence going on behind the scenes with some of you. I'm delighted with the diversity of the readership here. It's a privilege to be helping and interacting with people I'd never otherwise "meet"! The fun and wonder will grow on April 29 as I hostess what's called the "Haveil Havalim" blogpost carnival.

Various bloggers from around the world will be sharing their links with me in the next few days. I'll post selected entries that serve public interests and purposes on April 29th. No snarky remarks from contributors, please. Share something thoughtful, innovative, educational, helpful, or soothing to serve public interests. Send your URL to giveretgolani@gmail.com.

Here's a quick FYI if you're wondering what Haveil Havalim means in English: Vanity of vanities. It's a catch-phrase repeated in Ecclesiastes (kohelet in Hebrew), the famous passage written by King Solomon. We learn in it to focus on spiritual meaning, to rise above our present limitations (moral, physical, emotional, intellectual, etc.). Why? Selfishness is not destined for eternal value.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Fractures HURT and so do the wrong crutches. Here's an FYI from a medical professional who contributed to today's blogpost:

"Please be aware that crutches must be the correct measurements for YOUR measurements! And you must use them correctly or you may cause yourself injury. Here is just 1 link to info on the measurements you need for your crutches as well as links to their proper use. I see too many people with obviously incorrect crutch lengths! So if/when you get the crutches, go there armed [no pun intended] with a measuring tape and your own necessary measurements.

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge to learn how to speed up your healing process from that fracture. Even how to quickly overcome RSD/CRPS! Click on http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Here's an informative bit of pain management news for Becker's ASC Reviewand beyond: Surgeons preparing to do corrective surgery on my feet were astounded to learn that I had not been taking any pain killers for the deformity currently messing up my walking abilities. How astounded? The head of the department asked me if I was afraid to reveal how much medication I take, as the situation was affecting my ability to even stand, run or walk! He informed me that most people find the situation unbearably painful.

I assured the doctors that

the pain management tips shared in

have served me well. I literally ate the foods or took the vitamins listed there. They minimized or canceled the pain altogether. The only reason I'd sought the surgical consult is because time and the repeated use of my feet and legs have worn down some of the parts. That caused an awkward gait. I need to walk with greater stability. So, I'm going to have corrective out-patient foot surgery in the foreseeable future.

Pain management specialists, anesthesiologists and nurses can learn quite a bit from the book. So can the average reader. The first time I'd had surgery for the situation was almost a drug-free experience. I simply meditated as the surgeon rearranged the bones and muscles for me. I only needed pain killers to a small degree, near the end. That surprised the staff supporting me.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Fun does not have age limits, as you'll see in this Dancing in Dulles video. Get your boogey on. Sing, dance, indulge in some realistic for you sports, whatever it takes. The trick is to do what appeals to you and lifts your spirits - maybe those of people sharing the fun with you, too. There's plenty of healing power in pleasure.

Want to lose the too-thick middle-aged midriff while you're at it? I have two terrific tips to share with you on this blog. Just ask me for them by leaving a comment below, with your name and photo so I'll sort of know with whom I'm communicating.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Many of my real life and cyber acquaintances are in physical pain due to accidents and/or to eating nutrition-challenged "foods" for Easter (candy only looks cute in the box, not in your gut) and Passover (too often overloaded with sugar and eggs, let alone matza). It's a memorable lesson in the harm that sugar and dietary excess can cause to human bodies.

Here are some helpful and quite economical tips from the "Coping with Pain" section of

I was in a freak accident in which my left elbow and ulna (a long, slim bone in the forearm) were broken in multiple locations. I’d been left-handed lifelong.

My disability was significant and my level of pain due to the complicated fracture was too awful to describe here. I took powerful painkillers that only removed a bit of the mega-wattage agony. Doctors in the hospital eventually gave me morphine so I could endure arm-saving surgery.

Physical therapy was a matter of raw courage. I wept through several sessions, struggling to restore the use of my hand, forearm and upper arm. I stopped taking narcotic painkillers over time, fearful of addiction problems from prolonged use.

Then I gradually put together an all-natural pain-reducing plan that worked.

Here’s some potentially helpful information for anyone healing from a bone fracture as I did, or for anyone interested in protecting their bone health.

I minimized the pain by:

· Using my Personal Pain-o-Meter (explained a few paragraphs below)

· Listening to soothing music

· Sitting in cheer-me-up sunshine (which provides Vitamin D for strong teeth and bones) with and without friends

· Basing part of my grocery list on advice from Dr. Neal Barnard’s Foods That Fight Pain book. I bought it after interviewing Dr. Barnard about some of his innovative health-promoting techniques several years ago (I’m still a health writer/journalist for hire, folks).

Shop as I do and you just might feel better after buying from the organic green-grocer and health food store:

Almonds with Raisins (really!)

Beans (soak them for a day, changing water 2-3 times so you won’t develop belly bloat)

· Any bar of soap at all. I have no idea why this folk remedy works, but after I place a bar of soap under a sweatshirt sleeve, under sheets, or upon some other area of sore muscles, the pain reduces noticeably.

Be sure to visit www.NutritionMD.org for more information about the role of nutrition in a variety of diseases and conditions.

Oh – if you or the person you're caring for can't swallow pills, here are some possible solutions to the problem:

Crush the pills. Place them in a plastic sandwich bag and step on them if you lack a pill crushing appliance. Then mix the bits with applesauce. Be sure to shake all the powder into the applesauce, too.

Warm liquid jell-o is another alternative. Pudding works. So does pleasant-tasting yogurt. The idea is to provide a slippery, pleasant-tasting food in the mouth so that the medication will go into the tummy with it. The pleasant taste prevents gag reflex problems. The slippery textures make the swallowing much easier despite the fear of swallowing the pills. And children will be eager for more dessert at medication time. Be sure to remind them that the medicine is not dessert, the pudding, applesauce, jell-o or yogurt perform that yummy job.

Do you suffer from leg cramps that wake you during the night? I sympathize. Here are my suggestions for preventing them:

PREVENT LEG CRAMPS

1. DRINK WATER - dehydration can play a part in leg cramps.

2. Stretch your calves during the day and night, especially before bed.

3. Riding a bicycle is one of the best preventatives, but a stationary bicycle a few minutes in the evening can help, too.

4. Keep your blankets and sheets loose at the foot of the bed to prevent your toes from pointing downward as you sleep.

6. Do the "Seaweed Soak": eating seaweed and drinking seaweed previously soaked in water before a meal. Eat, juice or blend good amounts of green leafy vegetables (parsley, squash, Swiss chard, etc.) and carrots, etc. Munch on sesame seeds and even add them to nut milks (e.g., almond milk). These foods hold tremendous amounts of magnesium, calcium, etc. which are very important for muscle comfort and function. You can learn about juicing and making nut milks in books or online.

1. Stand 30 inches from the wall. 2. While keeping your heels on the floor, lean forward, put your hands on the wall, and slowly move your hands up the wall as far as you can reach comfortably.3. Hold the stretched position for 30 seconds. Release. 4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 two more times. 5. For best results, practice this exercise in the morning, beforeyour evening meal, and before going to bed each night.

Let's shift focus now, to Mind over Matter. Want to know how a Personal Pain-o-Meter works?

My recovery from that severely broken arm (doctors had to install a permanent metal brace under the skin, along my bones, in order to save the arm) had been challenging, to put it politely. I'd wept from awful, awful pain that major painkillers (including morphine) hardly affected. But I learned to cope with the agony by reducing it at will. Now I'm ready to share that technique with you.

Want relief from the physical pain of your medical condition? Try this nifty trick. Turn down the dial on your Personal Pain-o-Meter, a terrific technique that friend/Life Coach Ben Goldfarb taught me. Pain that does not serve a function is pain we can banish at will.

Go on. Create a dial in your mind. Study it. Say the level of your pain out loud: "On a scale from one to ten, ten being the worst level of pain, I have a pain level of... (fill in the blank with a number from 1-10)," then say this out loud, "I can lower my pain. I'm lowering it to (name the ever-lower wattage at each new pain-lowering session)..."

Then do it. Imagine the arrow on your Personal Pain-o-Meter dialing downward. Push it down with your mind. Choose to reduce your pain. Aim for less than half your present pain level.

Try again until you make progress. Yes, I know it's difficult. I do this exercise, too. My physical therapy workouts were not pleasant. C'mon. Try it again.

You can set aside time as often as needed to work at aiming that arrow increasingly down. You'll know you've succeeded when you realize that your discomfort feels significantly less than it felt earlier. Keep spinning that arrow down until your pain is as low as possible.

The first part of the book lets you know how to stay organized despite blizzards of paperwork, piles of business cards for doctors and treatment sites, pressing appointment schedules and the need to pack for hospital stays. It even includes tips for keeping or recovering your sense of humor despite all the pressure.

The second part of the book, the Global Resources section, clues you in to worldwide organizations willing to pay part of all of your medical costs and then some!

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

A happy-go-lucky woman in Israel wakes up blind in 2005. She soon learns in an emergency room that she is dying. Then she has emergency brain surgery and loses the benign brain tumor that had blinded her and almost ended her ability to breathe.

One year later in 2006, medical experts inform the weak, thin woman that she will never see again. And here she is in 2012, typing this blogpost to you - after she wrote a book to help ill and disabled people around the world!

It is the story of how I benefited from various forms of wisdom in the western and natural healing worlds. I now have doctor-certified bones and muscles to rival those of a woman HALF my age. The prescription for my eyewear has fallen 16 - yes 16 - times in 6 years. Every aspect of my former vision problems is lessening over time.

My physical health is improving in other ways, too. As for my emotional/mental health, well, there's a reason that I was invited to address a conference of mental health professionals - and why so many recommend that you read

There are plenty of reasons that I chose the motto for this blog to be

Face your medical problems with dignity.

Face your future with optimism.

Let me know which page of the book convinces you that an improved and protected sense of dignity plus ever-better optimism help ill people to cope with medical, mental health and disability challenges.

The bonus is that, as you read, you'll learn how to improve your health - or someone else's - while saving money worldwide: Results, safety, and health in one E-book or print edition.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Back on April 5 I alerted you to the chance for meeting one of my healing helpers, the craniosacral therapist who restored the use of my surgically paralyzed eyelid. The corresponding nerve had been affected by the now-gone meningioma, and life-saving surgery to remove it.

It was 5765/2005, a week before the Passover holiday. I was busy installing a new kitchen. While I attended the mundane my dear friend Yocheved Golani, whom I would actually meet a year later, developed a sudden case of blindness.

Alone in Hadassah Ein Kerem's emergency room, Yocheved discovered a terrible reality that would dictate the course of the next few years of her life. She had a brain tumor growing on top of the section in the brain that controls breathing and heartbeat. What's more the tumor nestled in a bed of nerves that control movement to the right side of the body, facial sensation, hearing, neck movement and vision.

Yocheved was at risk for permanent deafness, blindness, paralysis, and dying a slow painful death of asphyxiation that could not be stopped by medical professionals. She had little time left for successful rescue efforts.

It was not the worst news that Yocheved learned that day.

The part that nearly devastated her was finding out that the tumor had been identified eighteen months earlier, but never revealed to her. She had lost a critical window of opportunity to remove the tumor safely and completely with user-friendly Gamma Knife Radiation when the tumor had been quite small and relatively harmless. It would have involved one doctor appointment as an outpatient in the hospital. It would have cured her in an hour. At this point in time, it was too late to use Gamma Knife successfully. Yocheved needed surgical removal of the tumor.

Two prominent neurosurgeons refused to operate on Yocheved at this late date for fear that they would kill her by merely trying to remove the now enlarged growth. A miraculous event led Yocheved to the surgeon who agreed to try to save both her life and its quality. But, he cautioned, substantial risks would present themselves throughout the effort to save her. The doctor offered no guarantees, only his world-famous surgical skill and his experienced hands. Yocheved decided to take the chance. "GOD commands us to choose life. I refused to turn away the one opportunity I had for saving my life. I gave the doctor and myself the possibility to succeed. I agreed to let him operate on me."

Yocheved resolved to live past this crisis, and she did. Beating the odds for survival over the tumor that was slowly killing her, and the odds regarding devastating potential consequences from the dangerous surgery awaiting her, Yocheved clung to core beliefs.

She also developed some new emotional and spiritual muscles in order to remain alive and to recover from the effects of her medical condition. "I also needed to put everyone around me at ease so that we could work as a team to make me well," Yocheved explains.

This workbook is designed to help you to cope with a medical challenge, perhaps a medical crisis. It is based on actions that Yocheved took, ideas she embraced, and emotions that saved her life. Her new updated version gives you even more resources to use in this process.

You can adapt Yocheved's coping mechanisms to your life so that you too can face a medical crisis with dignity, skills that can improve your mental and physical health, and as much healing as HaShem (GOD) will bring to you.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Craniosacral therapy did far more for my overall health than to restore the use of my formerly paralyzed eyelid. Chana Bracha and I hope to see you in the audience tomorrow night, where you can hear about that, and how CST can help you.
Ready to read about other forms of standard and alternative/complementary healing techniques that help people around the world? Buy E-book or print edition EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

No matter where you live or how young/old you are, this book teaches you how to calm down plus how to minimize, even end, the confusion and chaos of illness.

Read the Global Resources section to learn of cost-cutting organizations willing to pay part or all of your specific medical expenses. EMPOWER Yourself helps you to get your grin back despite illness or disability.

Those worldwide organizations are willing to pay for part or all of an applicant's medical care, medication, medical appliances, and other medical needs. The coverage applies to medical, disability plus mental health care.

Need air transport to a medical site? Covered.

Latinos with liver disease? Covered.

Can't afford necessary exams and hospital stays? Covered.

Need a modest hospital gown so your buttocks aren't on display for everyone to see? Covered.

Learn how to communicate more effectively with medical professionals on pages 55 - 58.

Make your needs clear to healthcare pros, family and friends – including annoying visitors! Pages 59 & 66-69 let you know what to do. Be sure to read the part entitled "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" aloud to them.

Limited somehow by your medical situation? You'll be stronger – perhaps wealthier - after learning what to tell (and when) to potential employers in Chapter 12, "Employment with a Disability."

Find out how to lower your costs in the Global Resources section at the back of the book.

About Me and The Books I Wrote to Help YOU

My name is Yocheved Golani. A former Health Information Management professional certified in Counseling Skills and Spiritual Chaplaincy, I'm repairing the "Patients are Clueless and Powerless" status quo of medical care. The Internet isn't enough for finding medical information to save or improve your life. You need facts, not rumors or false leads.
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Spiritual, inspirational, endorsed by medical & mental health professionals, It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To lets you laugh again with effective tips for surviving your critics & your situation. Save time & money with contact information for meeting medical needs with low-cost and free health care options at the back of the book. EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge today!
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It's My Crisis and I'll Cry if I Need To offers practical, powerful, and creative tools to empower anyone undergoing a medical crisis. Learn what to say to unpleasant people (relatives and medical staff included), and how to get them on your side!

"It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge" teaches you what to say if people make fun of you for crying in fear or shame at your diagnosis, and what to do if people behave rudely to you in the hospital.

The E-book or paperback hold lots of fun things to do for feeling better about yourself. Tips on how to organize your suitcase and self for going to the hospital and even for keeping your medical and insurance papers can keep you worry-free.

SAVE MONEY! The back of the book tells you how to get freeor low-cost First Quality Medical Care, Medication, Medical Appliances, Medical Transport and MORE.

EMPOWER Yourself validates your need to cry over your medical crisis then EMPOWERS you to cope with it. Share what you learn with friends, loved ones, & your medical team. Make yourself happier by reading this book.

The first edition was a hit! It's been #2 on the Musella site since Nov. 2 2008! The Updated Edition is going strong.

Reviews of "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To"

I loved your book! I gave it to many friends of mine. Arlene Abrams of Trixie & Janewww.trixieandjane.com

"I received EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge one week after I suffered my own medical crisis and found it very helpful. [It] will be of great benefit both in dealing with the fragile emotional health of sick patients and the stressful situation of the patient's caregiver… [with] very practical comprehensive information for dealing with a health-related crisis that is so seldom available to someone who is ill and preoccupied with their own troubles.

Ill people are often compromised and often don't know where to look for guidance. Putting so much useful information at their fingertips will help them navigate the difficulties of a confusing medical system. Combined with [the author's] encouragement to never give up hope, the book will be of great aid to anyone with a sudden serious medical emergency." - Daniel Eisenberg, MD, Department of Radiology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA; Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine; Medical Ethicisthttp://www.daneisenberg.com/

"… a powerful 'can-do' message to those most in need of it …It could save your life or the life of your loved one. This combination of positive attitude and positive action makes this guide useful and complete. Its lessons extend far beyond the medical sphere to life challenges whatever they may be: lessons we can't afford to ignore." – Life Coach Y. Ives, England

“I’ve given Yocheved’s book to therapists and to several patients on chemotherapy. They found it very helpful.” - Abraham J. Twerski, M.D., Gateways Addiction Rehabilitation Founder and Therapist

"... This life-saving workbook will help you direct your thoughts in positive, constructive ways that will make a big difference for you and your loved one. It's a lantern in a dark night from someone who's 'been there, done that.' And if you follow its suggestions, you'll likely come through the crisis better, not bitter. It's filled with wonderful ideas." Robin L. Silverman, Fullistic Living(TM) Fortune 500 Motivational Speaker

"Through her inspiring honesty, courage and strength, Yocheved shows us how the importance of a positive attitude and will to live are both essential to healing and recovery through all of life's challenges." - D. Topolosky, Psychologist

"... The inspiration and determination of this woman through positive reinforcement and amazing faith has made her a medical miracle and a wonderful example to us all. It's a must read for all!" - Renee Crowell

"… this insightful and uplifting book guides us to confront illness in a multi-modal fashion... using all resources at our disposal—humor, creating a positive emotional environment, self-nurturing, friends, outside resources, medical and alternative practitioners—to fight illness.

"Yocheved Golani gives excellent advice on how we can build and preserve good morale, get help when we need it, stay organized with appointments, medication, bills, etc., prepare for hospitalization, focus on our blessings and healing.… this book gives Resources... contact information about organizations and treatment centers that deal with specific medical problems... that most people wouldn't know how to find, including compassionate clowns, services for blind people, where to get free medical care and medications, and where to enroll in clinical trials.

"A truly amazing and uplifting story - the book, is a must have manual, not only if you're going through a crisis - but gives strength to everyone, seeing how 1 woman, is so brave and so clear about where her Blessings come from - Hashem. Buy the book, read it, and buy it for a friend, you'll be glad you did. " - SH

IT'S HARD TO COPE The pressure's on. We want to be heroes at saving our own lives, or somebody else wants us to be heroic. [But] we feel like quitting this scary situation. As the mental pressure builds, our minds sort of explode. We might start asking "Why is this happening to me?" We don't ask that question because we necessarily want answers… The question is really about accusing GOD of having made a mistake- a BIG mistake. We don't believe we deserve the troubles and pain that we're in... it can make a suffering person feel infuriated. That can lead to a sense of guilt. [You need to realize that] acceptance is a process. Normal people need time to come to grips with their medical crisis… Asking "Why ME?" [could mean] "How can I get out of this situation?" … What if you're afraid that you DESERVE this medical crisis? I have two user-friendly responses to those questions…

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"... This comprehensive book helps individuals navigate the medical system... when dealing with medical crises for oneself or for a family member. There is an abundance of resources, including special doctors, listed toward the end of the book." - Laurie Sussman"I just heard you on the radio. I can honestly say that you were amazing and very inspiring." - Sara Dina GolemboNOVEMBER 11 2007 : "I had the privilege of having Yocheved speak [in my] home yesterday. If you have not had the opportunity to hear her amazing story and read her new book, you are truly missing out. It is a life-changing experience. One that I am very grateful to have had... Do yourself a favor and let Yocheved's experience change your life!" Renee Crowell

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Energize! Organize! Achieve your goals.A patient-empowering coach, I can help you to cope with the stresses of illness and more. Get your grin back with Giveret Golani Self-Help Coaching.

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Hire Me to help you to tame the bureaucratic chaos, rollercoaster emotions and other stresses associated with illness.To your coping successes,Yocheved Golani Author, Self-Help Coach

My SELF-HELP COACHING Services

MEETING GOALS. PLANNING STRATEGIES.

TIME and ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT.

IMPROVING YOUR HEALTH .

COPING with EMOTIONAL and PHYSICAL STRESS.

Conventional therapy focuses on the past. My Self-Help Coaching focuses on your present and more importantly, on your future!

We'll work together to identify and to build on your existing strengths. You can use ensuing insights into achieving productive goals.

Giveret Golani Self Help Coaching is based on using the TOOLS that work for an individual client. The GOALS of Giveret Golani Life Coaching are to assist you in making desired transitions in your personal lives, enabling you to increase your self-esteem and to make more and ever-greater accomplishments. We'll focus on your future and on getting better results than you've experienced in the past.

Listen to how a recent client praised my work: "...I just wanted to let people know about a great resource I discovered. She does life / self-actualization coaching, among many other things. She's written several books, please take a look at the links below. She has very deep wisdom from life experience, and a great deal of practical sense. She specializes in coping with serious illness, but she works with all kinds of issues, as well. I had a great session with her today where she took a heap of ungrounded aspirations (eg., I want to write / get my ideas out into the world....somehow) and, in an hour and a half, turned them into a viable,workable action plan I could get started on and feel good about right away (a timeline and lots of practical sugestions to focus my energy on an attainable goal..."

You won't get lectures from me about what to do with your life. We'll explore that topic together! I'll listen to the goals you want to reach, ask lots of clarifying questions, then work with you to achieve your goals. You set the pace, I help you to keep going and to reach your destination.

The information and ideas in my Self Help Coaching work, in this blog and in my book are not intended to replace personal advice from licensed physicians, and they do not constitute a doctor-patient or therapist-client relationship. Information in the above-mentioned resources is provided for informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, nor a substitute for diagnosing or treating an emotional, mental, or medical condition. You need to consult board certified medical and mental health professionals in all matters relating to your health, and for suspected symptoms of illness requiring diagnosis or medical attention (including simple first aid). For spiritual matters, consult sensibly behaved clergy who demonstrate complete respect for your wellbeing. Your actions, based on information culled from my resource materials, are at your own responsibility and discretion. Yocheved Golani and Booklocker.com are not liable for any direct or indirect claim, loss or damage resulting from use of my book or blog and/or any media materials including web site(s) and blogs linked to/from it.

"This has such powerful life changing tools that it is amazing that it fits in one book. Really powerful insights that can improve so many situations even without an illness in the family. Great Work! A must read for anybody who really wants a better life!" Robert Hunds Oct 1 2009 (he found it via the flipping BookBuzzr below. It appears on my E-mail)

"I read thru most of Yocheved Golani's book. Of course I found it almost personalized so I treat it as a resource guide.I will undoubdedly re-read after I get an overview but it is a great read and she is obviously quite a woman." - James Owen (Tzadok Osher) Herlands

"... a helpful, informative text that can bring hope, help and humor to someone experiencing a medical crisis." - Dr. Lisa Aiken, Psychologist

"INSPIRATIONAL!!!" - R. Grund

"It is good. I added it as a recommended book to our book list." - Al Musella, The Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research & Information

Share the book with friends and loved ones, medical and mental health professionals, or read it alone. Start relaxing with the very first page. It’s MY Crisis!can solve or prevent MANY problems for you or your loved ones.

"The workbook is very good! We're glad we had you speak for our clients and supporters." Karen Traub, co-founder Jewish Caring Network

“Friends of ours have a young child recently diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy (currently a terminal diagnosis). I assisted them with [It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To]... It enabled them to face their challenge with strength.” Psychotherapist Jonathan Dove, UK

"It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To is very interesting and useful. It can help people with emotional difficulties. I have ALS disease, and I found much of Yocheved's advice useful. I have implemented it in my life. I recommend that everyone, including healthy people, read this book in order to increase the quality of their lives." Dr. Rahamim Melamed-Cohen, Former National Supervisor of Educational Programming for Israel's Department of Education - Jerusalem, Israel

"... Yocheved Golani has created a wonderful resource for those going through... life crises. Written with hopefulness, optimism... Yocheved’s book inspires and guides us to meet our own challenges with strength, determination, resilience, and faith." Shiela Strauss, Ph.D., Public Health Researcher USA

Benefit from the positive impact of the book’s humor, insight, can-do exercises and cost-cutting medical information.

The FIRST EDITION of It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To truly is "A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge."

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